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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
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'Corokia macrocarpa' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
An evergreen shrub up to 20 ft high; young shoots stiffer and stouter than in the other species and, like the under-surface of the leaves and the flower-stalks, covered with silvery white felt. Leaves narrowly oval or oblong-lanceolate, tapered towards both ends; 2 to 4 in. long, 1⁄2 to 1 in. wide, rather leathery. Flowers yellow, 1⁄3 to 1⁄2 in. wide, produced in racemes 1⁄2 to 11⁄2 in. long from the leaf-axils; petals narrow oblong. Fruit 1⁄3 in. long, broadish oblong, red. Bot. Mag., t. 9168.
Native of, and confined to, Chatham Island. It is distinct from the other large-leaved species, C. buddleioides, in its axillary racemes of flowers and blunter-ended leaves. It has been grown, and flowered well, at both Wakehurst Place and Highdown, Sussex, but is not cultivated in either garden at present and must be reckoned as definitely tender.